can't enter my email address

[宋浩]

description of what happened to me:
msginit prompted for my email address. It gave me several candidate
addresses, possibly obtained from my mail server configuration, and said, as
I quoted here:

Please choose the number, or enter your email address.

But after I've entered the address I'd like to use (not one from the
candidate list) and pressed enter, nothing happened. I pressed enter several
times, but still nothing happened. I tried to signal a END-OF-FILE with
Ctrl-D, still nothing. Then I didn't know what to do and killed the process
with Ctrl-C.

the environment in which I'm using msginit:
msginit (GNU gettext-tools) 0.17 (ubuntu package: gettext 0.17-2ubuntu1)
shell: GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) (ubuntu
package: bash 3.2-0ubuntu18)
terminal emulator: GNOME gnome-terminal 2.22.1 (ubuntu package:
2.22.1-0ubuntu2)
input method: SCIM 1.4.7 (ubuntu package: scim 1.4.7-3ubuntu8)
operating system: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04 with Linux kernel 2.6.24-18-generic
I install all these software packages from the Ubuntu software repositories